\documentclass[10pt,a4paper]{article} % Packages \usepackage{fancyhdr} % For header and footer \usepackage{multicol} % Allows multicols in tables \usepackage{tabularx} % Intelligent column widths \usepackage{tabulary} % Used in header and footer \usepackage{hhline} % Border under tables \usepackage{graphicx} % For images \usepackage{xcolor} % For hex colours %\usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc} % For unicode character support \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} % Without this we get weird character replacements \usepackage{colortbl} % For coloured tables \usepackage{setspace} % For line height \usepackage{lastpage} % Needed for total page number \usepackage{seqsplit} % Splits long words. %\usepackage{opensans} % Can't make this work so far. Shame. 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Switch to any value % from this page to resize cheat sheet text: % www.emerson.emory.edu/services/latex/latex_169.html \footnotesize % Small font. \begin{multicols*}{3} \begin{tabularx}{5.377cm}{X} \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{std::move}} \tn \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{// Basic Usage \newline std::move(\textless{}object\textgreater{}); \newline \newline -{}-{}-{}-{}-{}-{}-{}-{}-{}-{}-{}-{}-{}-{}-{}-{}-{}-{}-{}-{}-{}-{}-{}-{}-{}-{}-{}-{}-{}-{}-{}-{}-{}-{}-{}-{}-{}-{}-{}-- \newline \newline // Not using move \newline MyObject a; \newline MyObject b = a; // a and b both exist, a is unchanged \newline \newline // With move — transfers ownership (cheap, always works) \newline MyObject a; \newline MyObject b = std::move(a); // b has everything, a is now empty \newline \newline // With a caller \newline MyObject buildThing() \newline \{ \newline MyObject thing; \newline return std::move(thing); // transfers ownership to the caller \newline \} \newline \newline MyObject result = buildThing(); // result now owns everything} \tn \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}-} \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{1. Transfers ownership of an object to another location, leaving the original empty. It prevents expensive or impossible copies by moving the underlying data instead.} \tn \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}-} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{5.377cm}{X} \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{std::make\_unique}} \tn \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{auto myObject = std::make\_unique\textless{}ClassName\textgreater{}(arg1, arg2, ...);} \tn \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}-} \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{You get back a std::unique\_ptr\textless{}ClassName\textgreater{} that automatically deletes the object when it goes out of scope. \newline \newline \textless{}ClassName\textgreater{} — the type you want to allocate \newline \textless{}arg1, arg2, ...\textgreater{} — the arguments forwarded to its constructor (can be zero or more)} \tn \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}-} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{5.377cm}{X} \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{std::thread}} \tn \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{std::thread t(callable, arg1, arg2, arg3, ...); \newline \newline // Methods \newline .joinable() // Returns a bool determining if a thread can eventually be joined \newline \newline .join() // Signals that the thread calling it (one step up) will wait on it} \tn \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}-} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{5.377cm}{X} \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{std::atomic}} \tn \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{std::atomic\textless{}T\textgreater{} name \{ initial\_value \}; \newline \newline // Methods \newline .store(value, ordering) // writes a new value to the atomic object. An enum value from memory\_order} \tn \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}-} \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{Wraps any type T and guarantees that reading and writing to it from multiple threads is always safe.std::atomic\textless{}T\textgreater{} wraps any type T and guarantees that reading and writing to it from multiple threads is always safe. Without it, two threads touching the same variable simultaneously is undefined behaviour in C++. It essentially puts a protection around the variable so every read and write is always a clean, complete operation.} \tn \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}-} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{5.377cm}{X} \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{std:exception}} \tn \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{try \newline \{ \newline // code that might throw \newline \} \newline catch (const std::exception\& e) \newline \{ \newline std::cout \textless{}\textless{} e.what(); // returns a description of the error \newline \}} \tn \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}-} \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{std::exception is the base class for all standard C++ exceptions, caught using a const reference. \newline \newline Give me one sentence on the method what} \tn \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}-} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} % That's all folks \end{multicols*} \end{document}